Benefits to the University and Faculty
In addition to simplifying the Request for Funding
(RFP) process, streamlining project approval, and providing a national
network of ready sponsors and collaborators for
scientific research, the benefits of the CESU to the university
include:
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Universities that are CESU members have
the inside track on federal projects (participating agencies
agree to use the universities within the CESU as the sole source
of research providers).
-
removes the need
to invest large amounts of effort and time toward writing proposals
in the hope of gaining funding.
-
offers long term
relationships with federal agencies (CESU contract renewals
are every 5 years and agency members will network the names
of productive university researchers).
-
forms a national network with agency
sponsors, so the CESU expert databases transcends regional
boundaries (for
instance,
an
agency that
is headquartered in Alaska or Virginia may now easily call
upon the expertise of a researcher in
Florida).
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offers increased collaboration
among faculty, students and agency scientists and increased opportunity
for multi-agency research
projects.
-
CESU offers increased opportunity
for faculty to provide technical assistance and establish the
research agendas for federal agencies and it offers consistent
and comprehensive cooperative agreements that maximize opportunities
for federally-sponsored research.
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